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Emily Drabinski

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 3h

My most fundamental belief is that we do not have to live like this.

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 12h

“We had our authoritarian government imposed on us, you voted for yours.”

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 12h

People worrying about my safety in Bangladesh as if the US is fine.

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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 16h

"The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies and democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency."

Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams

A landmark report on global inequality shows that the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else continued to expand this year

www.commondreams.org

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Tavi @baseballszn.bsky.social · 20h

I mean, it’s finally coverage, but to leave out the blatant union busting on the part of the Dodgers that’s encouraging this awful behavior is extremely disingenuous.

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Free tickets vs. 34% raise: Dodger Stadium tour guides contentious divide colors union vote

A vote this week to unionize has divided Dodger Stadium tour guides. Some want a significant raise while others don't want to give up free tickets from the team.

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone know a Japanese public library worker who would want to come on the podcast?

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

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Labor Leaders Cheer House Vote to Undo 'Single-Largest Act of Union Busting in American History' | Common Dreams

US labor leaders celebrated the House of Representatives' bipartisan vote in favor of a bill that would reverse President Donald Trump's attack on the collective bargaining rights of 1 million federal...

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Wrote about the Mets. mollyknight.substack.com/p/mets-front...

Mets front office to Mets fans: drop dead

The free Friday newsletter

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

An analysis of 700,000+ climate change papers found that the five most climate-vulnerable countries produced 0.04% of them. US, China, Uk, Germany, Australia, meanwhile, account for 52%.

Bridging the climate research divide: A global imperative for equitable resilience

Nations most vulnerable to climate contribute minimally to climate research, creating stark global disparities. Such imbalances undermine resilience, perpetuate injustice, and threaten effective adapt...

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Holiday Ryan @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 1d

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d

Just continually screengrabbing my skeets to post as tweets so he and his loser friends can be racist, sexist, and antigay.

HI DAN.

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Waging Nonviolence @wagingnonviolence.org · 1d

The famed educator and Highlander Folk School founder Myles Horton offers insights on living through the ups and downs of movement cycles.

Learning from Myles Horton’s legendary career in social movements

The famed educator and Highlander Folk School founder offers insights on living through the ups and downs of movement cycles.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d

Why is Dan Kleinman like that? I can't wait til these losers are finally vanquished.

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 2d

As Angela Davis says, freedom is a constant struggle.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 2d

There is a network of court watchers who support immigrants at the ICE courts in Manhattan.

They have learned the movements and "personas" of the masked agents.

One told me: "Some of them are very sadistic." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...

The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court

One day last month, a Peruvian mother and her daughter went into...

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 2d

I believe that we will win. 🇧🇩

Student mural commemorating the July 2024 movement. Four individuals holding up fists and the words UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 2d

One song and one song only in my head during this trip to Bangladesh.

The name is Mamdani.

M-A-M-D-A-N-I.

🇧🇩 🇧🇩 🇧🇩

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 2d

How is Juan Soto feeling about all this? #BaseballFilter

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 2d

I have an overdeveloped shame reflex and would be happy to share with others.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.

Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.

Trump-Vance White House Targets Beloved Nun in Texas, Retaliates Against Catholic Charities

Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley — praised by Pope Leo as an “agent of hope” — now faces a six-year federal funding ban. Church leaders say it’s a vendetta by the Trump-Vance White House.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 4d

Greetings from East West University in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Photo of a banner in the design of the Palestinian flag reading US EMPIRE WILL NOT LAST

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 4d

Edwin Diaz yes I'll take it inject it directly into my veins. #DodgerFilter

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

The Trump admin gave states an ultimatum: Cooperate with the immigration crackdown, or lose your federal funding.

Oregon and 19 other states fought back — and won.

Then officials logged in to the grant website to accept the money, only to find the button to do so was disabled: propub.li/4a4Bsk5

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City Limits News @citylimitsnews.bsky.social · 4d

Tenants in five East Harlem buildings won half a million dollars in back rent and repairs, in a settlement with their landlord over poor housing conditions. They now hope other tenants across the city can learn from their organizing. citylimits.org/how-these-ea...